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Show LETTERS 00 ASTRAY Registered Mail Addressed Chicago Chi-cago Found in Small Kentucky Ken-tucky Town. Important Communications Containing Contain-ing Orders and Checks and Drafts. Missing Several Months, Located Lo-cated In Southern Village. Chicago. Have you missed any Important Im-portant letters of lute that were aent by registered mall? Maybe they are waiting for you down In Chicago, Kentucky, an ambl Hints little village that aspires, appur cntly, to become a metropolis. Perhaps you never beurd of Chicago. Ky. Well, there aru some people In Chirac.'!, Ky., who never tieurd of Ckl rugo, III., they say. One of Ihi.in, II seems, Is I'oHtmuHter I'lilllp C. Smith. The n: lit mi I discovery of the vxls lencu of the other plucu on the limp fume about when 111! pieces uf regis tered mull Hint wi re Intended for the Illluols metropolis illupi. ur.-d. and wheu a corps of liKliiHtrloim sleuths were pliiced on their truck they showed up In the Kentucky niiiiicituku of Ih" larger city K.ime of them liuil been there since December of lust year un.l others had Journeyed I lie re aa recently aa July ill Niuiti of them had b.-cn opened, however, and the fault w as am United by post.illk-e Inxpi-cinin to the Ignorance Ignor-ance of tin i Keuiuiky poiiinu.iter llowcv, r, I'oHtiiiiiKier SiiiIUi wus put under advice, ureordlng lo an Ahso clui.-d 1'rei.a dlnputdi, and the long ataiidliiR niylery of the inlnslng let ters was cleared up. Incidentally the same Chicago men-hums reported an Increase of business, mid soinu Ken j tucky customers shortly will receive gnuds ihut they bud ordered and paid for. i All of the letters hud been mailed from Kentucky point a, anil us some ot the railway mall clerks In that part of ! the country are awure Hint Chicago. ! 111., has un aspiring rival, It Is as ' sumed that the Utters were put off there by nilstuke. "Bo lar as we know there was no I Bionetaiy loss." suld Inspector Utuart I ' i:. of thn Chi. lino olllce. "The coiiiplalntn eni put 111 the hands of a tracing clerk a short time ago mid the missing 2" lettera showed up In Chicago. Ky. They wern returned and on examination examina-tion found to contain thn checks or druftn Unit were originally In them. It dearly wan a case of a postmuster who didn't know his business, hut herenller we will know Hint there Is such a place as CIiIcuko, Ky., and will know where to look for delayed mull from that section of the country." |
